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" After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. "

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" I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way. "

" I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded. "

" Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. "

" I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me. "

" The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. "

" Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them. "

" My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. "

" Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. "

" I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary. "

" I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. "

" No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite. "

" I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested. "

" I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made. "

" In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. "

" No matter how much money you have, you can lose it. "

" As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me. "

" My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. "

" I definitely believe in a higher power. "

" Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. "

" Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you. "

" I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities. "

" I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls. "

" Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. "

" The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. "

" I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us. "

" I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in. "

" I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make. "

" Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. "

" I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. "

" When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. "